George Siemens

George Siemens
Siemens at UNESCO conference, 2009
Born1970 (age 5455)
CitizenshipCanada
Alma materUniversity of Aberdeen (PhD)
Scientific career
FieldsLearning Analytics, massive open online courses, digital education
Institutions
Academic advisorsMartin Weller

George Siemens is a Canadian expatriate professor of psychology at the University of Texas at Arlington and professor and director of the Centre for Change and Complexity in Learning at the University of South Australia. He is known for his theory of connectivism, which seeks to understand learning in the digital age. He played a role in the early development of massive online open courses (MOOCs).